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October 31, 5070


Overkiller, Alternica's Anti-War Concept Album, debuts at Number 1

Arguably the biggest band in hard Rock on the entire planet right now, Kaliburg's Alternica, released an anti-war record titled Overkiller, which debuted at Number 1 on the hard rock charts. The band has building a national and international following since the last album released in 5067 on KMI, Powermonger. Their new release represents a significant growth in the band's sound.

"The band's sound is finally polished," said critic Benny Starr.. "KMI has finally put some money behind this band in a major way. The record is clean, the band is stripped down and tight, the music is loud and fast, and the message resonates with millions of Kalistanis."

That message is one of opposition to war. Nearly all the songs feature hard hitting staccato rhythms that mean to mimic the sounds of a fierce battle. "We focused on drums and guitars that imitated artillery, machine gun fire and the loud chaos of an infantry charge," said Dave Crewes of the album. "The paired those sounds with the grisly details of violence and war. Our goal of course was to shock our audience into associating the brutality that we were singing about with war."

The song "Artillery" describes a village of noncombatants being bombarded by cannons. "We didn't pull punches," said Crewes. "When an artillery shell falls on your house and destroys everything within a fifty yard radius, sending molten metal shrapnel into the flesh of children, its a grisly scene. There's not much left when that's done." Similar songs talk how people blindly follow orders of leaders who will never themselves fight in a war, or how disposable soldiers are. Once song, "Friendly Fire" talks about the fog of war and how easy it is to kill one's own brother in a war.

"The Terran Sun is an anti Nuke song," said Crewes, "and is about the deadly destructive power of nuclear weaponry. We try to describe in graphic detail the effects of a bomb blast, from instant vaporization to terrible effects of radiation poisoning. At the end we ask, who are the real monsters? Of course the answer is those who possess nuclear weaponry in the first place."

Conservative groups were predictably outraged by this anti war record. "The lyrics themselves are so violent" said Todd Pelladin, preacher of the small evangelical Hosian Church Rock 40 in Vrassa. "I don't want my 12 children listening to this 'deth metal'." Jean Sorenson, mother of four school age children added "We can't let these pacifists infect the minds of our children. Sometimes we need war. Sometimes losses have to be tolerated. I don't like it, but sometimes it is necessary. And the way this band describes the honorable and ancient profession of warrior really is just unpatriotic."

Crewes is undaunted by the criticism. "We are just telling the truth: The horrifying truth. If we can change one mind about war, and the horrors and miseries of warmachines and nukes, maybe its worth it to bear the slings and arrows of 10 million ignorant warmonger conservatives."

The controversy once more fueled album sales, as advance releases of the lyrics went live three weeks before the album itself dropped. Underground radio stations across the Republic began reading lyrics on radio programs, prompting parent backlash, which of course fueled buzz for the record. When it was finally released, it instantly became the most purchased album in the Republic for that week, and remained in the number 1 spot for the last week. Alternica says they do not intend to release a single from the record, prefering instead for it to remain as a concept record.

You can listen to the song "MIC" is short for Military industrial Complex, here, and the whole album Overkiller from KMI on streaming services or on traditional media.

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